Bond, Francis, 1850-1918 · London, New York, Toronto, H. Frowde · leaf 37
21 Parclose Screens Where there was an aisled quire, screens were necessary to shelter the clergy or monks during the long offices from the draughts in the unheated churches ; as also to prevent the distraction which the movements of worshippers in the aisles and … Stamford St John ambulatory chapels might cause to those in the quire. These must have been provided in quite early days. The monk Gervase describes low walls as fencing in Canterbury quire in the twelfth century. In the greater churches these parclose screens were usually of stone ; Prior Eastry’s…
Church architecture · Screens (Church decoration)
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